November 17:
Anderman Photography Lecture with Alison Rossiter
Anderman Photography Lecture Series |Alison Rossiter
Friday, November 17, 2017
7:00–8:30pm
Alison Rossiter’s camera-less photographs emphasize the process and materiality of the photographic image in an increasingly digital age. She collects expired photo papers spanning every decade of the 20th century and explores the visual potential that remains in these often forgotten relics. Working with chemistry and the marks of time left on the paper itself, Rossiter creates minimalist compositions varying from atmospheric scenes that subtly evoke landscape, to images consisting of organic forms or geometric shapes.
Alison Rossiter was born in Jackson, MS in 1953 and currently lives and works in New Jersey. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous major institutions. Rossiter’s recently published book, Expired Paper, has just been nominated for Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation photobook of the year. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Lecture tickets are $5 for students, DAM members and CPAC members, $12 for general admission.
The Anderman Photography Lecture Series presents talks by the preeminent creators and thinkers in photography today. Series funding is generously provided by Evan and Elizabeth Anderman. Sponsored by the DAM Photography Department.
Image credit: Alison Rossiter, Lumière Lumitra, exact expiration date unknown ca. 1960, processed in 2014, from series Fours, quadriptych, unique gelatin silver prints. © Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
On view in at the DAM: Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989–2013Through November 12, 2017
Hamilton Building - Level 1
Included in General Admission
Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013, is a survey of the nearly 25-year career of the critically acclaimed photographer Fazal Sheikh. The exhibition features more than 170 portraits and landscapes which span a period from 1989 to 2013, offering deeper insight into human rights issues, major world events, racial strife, and mass global displacement in places such as East Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and the Netherlands. Stories told through Sheikh’s documentary-based photographs focus on survivors, orphans, and victims of violence and abuse.
Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013, is organized by the Denver Art Museum in collaboration with the Portland Art Museum. It is presented with generous support from J.P. Watkins, Micheline Klagsbrun and Ken Grossinger, the donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign, and the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Promotional support is provided by 5280 Magazine, CBS4, Comcast Spotlight, and The Denver Post.
Image credit: Fazal Sheikh, Malikh, Jai Hind squatter settlement, Delhi, India, 2005, from the series Ladli, India. © Fazal Sheikh
For additional details, please e-mail photography@denverartmuseum.org
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